. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Mar 1.

Published in final edited form as: Epilepsia. 2019 Feb 12;60(3):508–517. doi: 10.1111/epi.14660

Table # 3A.

The relationship between HCVR slope and selected clinical variables

	HCVR slope
Independent variable	Spearman ’s rho	p =
Age	−0.171	0.167
Gender	0.133	0.284
Duration of epilepsy	−0.051	0.685
BMI	0.136	0.271
SSRI/SNRI use	−0.016	0.896
OSA	0.039	0.756
Curent smoking	0.051	0.685
Baseline ETCO₂	−0.267	0.034^*
Unpleasantness of dyspnea	0.434	0.0003^*
Intensity of dyspnea	0.468	0.000085^*

p ≤ 0.05

Abbreviations: BMI- Body mass index; OSA: obstructive sleep apnea; SSRI- selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor; SNRI- serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors